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Amuse-Bouches [Links I Love]: February 22 – March 3

Here’s the latest list of stuff I found interesting on the interwebz, February 22 through March 3:

Everything you need to know about leaving for Italy tomorrowAn email arrived on Friday from Paul Brady, who said he needed some last-minute advice for an upcoming Italy trip. How last minute? He was leaving the following day. So, we traded emails for a few hours and he published the resulting "interview" on his blog.

The only bad news here is that now I'm the one dreaming of wandering the Oltrarno in Florence in search of another gelateria.

I hope Paul's having fun.

Horse meat faces ban in ItalyIn light of the recent revelations that horsemeat was found across Europe in packages that were supposed to contain beef, it's easy to forget that many people intentionally eat horsemeat. Italians eat more horsemeat than any other Europeans, and now they may face a horsemeat ban. That hardly seems like an appropriate outcome for people who knowingly eat it, does it?

Venice wants to stop Gondoliers who are fleecing touristsSo it took some of Venice's gondoliers getting caught on film charging exorbitant rates for gondola rides, but the outcome appears to be an Italian consumer group calling for gondoliers who do this to be stripped of their licenses.